A general feeling of indolence usually overtakes them during summer vacation.

Indolence is sweet and its consequences bitter.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.

Doleful

Full of grief: A doleful face

Expressing grief: A doleful melody

Causing grief: A doleful loss

The girl had a doleful look on her face.

You sounded so doleful about your future that night.

Endow

To furnish with an income; especially to make a grant of maoney providing for the continuing support or maintenance of

The wealthy couple endowed a new wing of the hospital

To equip or supply with a talent or quality

Nature endowed you with a beautiful singing voice.

Dubious

Marked by or causing doubt

Unsettled in mind; uncertain; doubtful

I was dubious about the plan

The practice is of dubious legality.

Dubiety

A feeling of doubt that often results in wavering

The comfort of having a faith free from all dubiety is what attracts people to the religious sect.

Indubitable

Too apparent to be doubted; unquestionable

Indubitable knowledge which is not derived from the sensory realm.

Indubitable sign, if ever there could be one, that the artists of oucc are not about to go quietly.

Induct

To place ceremoniously or formally in an office or a position

A service to induct the new president of the university.

To admit to military service

A draftee waiting to be inducted into the army.

To introduce as to new experiance or knowledge; initiate

She was inducted into the ways of the legal.

Duress

Constraint by threat, coercison

Confessed under duress

Complied with the order only under duress.

Dystopia

An imaginary place or state in which the condition of life is extremly bad, as from deprivation, oppression, or terror.

It took less than 48 hours for London to descend from self-styled capital of the world into a circuit of burning dystopian hells.

Dyslexia

A learning disability marked by impairment of the ability to recognize and comprehend written words.

Epilogue

The closing section of a book, programme etc

The final section of a literary, often added by way of explanation, comment, etc

A closing speech in a play, often delivered after the completion of the main action.

Epistle

A letter, esp a formal one

One of the letters included as a book in the New Testement.

Erratic

Characterized by lack of consistency, regularity, or uniformity

Erratic dieting

Because of your erratic attendance at practice, you are in danger of being cut from the team.

Aberrant

Deviating from the proper or expected course

Behaving in an abnormal or untypical way.

A year of aberrant weather--record rainfall in the summer, record heat in the autumn.

Aberrant behavior can be a sign of rabies in a wild animal.

Obsolescent

Going out of use

Obsolescent slang

Acquiescent

Willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without protest

Was not as acquiescent about sharing her room as her parents seemed to think she should be.

Euphemism

The deliberate or polite use of a pleasant or neutral word or expression to avoid the emotional implications of a plain term, as passed over for died; sleep with for have sexual intercourse with; departed for dead; relieve oneself for urinate.

Effusion

Unrestrained expression of words or feelings

Greeted her with great effusion.

The escape of a fluid from anatomical vessels by rupture or exudation.

Extrasensory

Residing beyond or outside the ordinary senses.

Extrasensory perception

Affable

Pleasant and easy to talk to

An affable young man

Characterized by ease and friendliness

An affable manner

Defame

To damage the reputation, character, or good name of by slander or libel

He says he was defamed by reports that falsely identified him as a former gangster.

Ofcourse I want to win the election, but I refuse to defame my opponent in order to do so.

Figment

Something invented, made up or fabricated

Just a figment of the imagination

Unable to find any tracks in the snow the next morning, I was forced to conclude that the shadowy figure been a figment of my imagination.

Ratify

To approve and agree to formally and officially, esp in writing

A number of countries have refused to ratify the treaty.

Lincoln's home state of Illinois was the first to ratify the 13th amendment to the U.S. constitution, which provided for the abolish of slavery.

Confer

To consult eachother

The staff conferred with the head master about the new time table.

To give an honour to someone

The university conferred degrees on two famouse scientists.

The lawyer and judge conferred about the ruling.

Fervor

Intensity of feeling or expression

Intense heat

The fervor surrounding her campaign continued right through election day.

The novel captures the revolutionary fervor of the period.

Fervid

Marked by great passion or zeal "a fervid patriot"

Extremly hot; burning

At the school board meeting the librarian delivered a fervid speech defending the classic novel against would-be censors.

Effervescent

To emit small bubbles of gas, as a carbonated or fermenting liquid.

To show liveliness or exhilaration.

Affidavit

A sworn statement in writing made esp under oath or on affirmation before an authorized magistrate or officer.

We have a signed affidavit stating that the two men were seen entering the building.